Héctor Croxatto

Héctor Croxatto Rezzio (3 July 1908—28 September 2010) was a Chilean physiologist.

He won the Chilean National Prize for Sciences in 1979.

Raised in Temuco, he studied medicine at the University of Chile in Santiago, where he received his medical degree in 1930.

Physiology, biology and biochemistry were the bulk of his research interests.

Seven years later he became a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican.